Archive for December 2013

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Another Year For Him

As The year draws to a close. I think back with thankfulness of all the ways the good Lord has blessed my life; through the thoughtful council of friends, the unexpected opportunities to learn new things, the meeting of new friends, the opportunities to bless others and see the power of God overflow out of my life into

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On The Twelfth day of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me......

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....Vivaldi's Gloria. Finally on the last day, a grand finale as it were, I want to share this beautiful classical Christmas piece with you. When I say Classical Christmas music, most, I believe, think of Handel's Messiah. But everyone knows about Messiah; not so this one. I didn't even know until a few weeks ago that my mother

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On The Eleventh day of Christmas, My true Love Gave to Me.....

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.....The Coventry Carol. Unlike most Christmas carols, this is a mournful one. It speaks of the sorrows of the Christmas season. When Herod, fearing the birth of another king, sent and slaughtered all the male children in Bethlehem. Now perhaps if Herod had known a little more about this king, he may have known that it would do

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On The Tenth Day Of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me.....

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.......Good Christian Men Rejoice/In Dulci Jubilo. The words to this song were written in the 1850's but the melody dates back to the fourteenth century! It is said to have made even the most pious of men dance for joy when they heard it sung; but that is simply legend. The tune was first set to a

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On The Ninth Day Of Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me....

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......Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne. I grew up with this beautiful Christmas hymn and assumed that most everyone else knew it too until we started singing it last year in Choir and our instructor asked who already knew the song, me and my siblings were the only ones who raised our hands! I was surprised, however it alerted

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On The Eight Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.....

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......The Star Carol. Up until today all the songs I have posted have no later than the 1800's but this song, written in the nineteen forty's by Alfred Burt is an exceptionally beautiful carol which, also our choir sang this year and which I would like to share with you all. This choir who sang it, did a

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On The Seventh Day of Christmas, My true love gave to me......

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.....A Virgin Unsupported. A very lovely carol which tells clearly and precisely the Christmas story; urging us in the chorus to rejoice for our Savior was born on this day! 1. A Virgin unspotted, the prophet foretold, Should bring forth a Savior, which now we behold. To be our Redeemer from death, hell and sin, Which Adam's

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On The Sixth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.....

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.....It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. This is such a contemplative and beautiful song; one of my favorites. This is also one of the most messed with Christmas carols! In fact it has been so switched that once at family bible time (where most of us sing without a hymn book) mommy and I were singing different lines

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On The Fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me......

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.....O Come All Ye Faithful! This one is an extremely old Carol, first written in Latin during the middle ages. It is not known for certain who wrote the lyrics or the music though there is much speculation on the subject. This song has such a "joyful and triumphant" tune that it fits perfectly with the lyrics. Extremely

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On The Fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....

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.....Angels From the Realms of Glory. This is a beautiful Christmas hymn, calling all peoples to come and worship Christ. Written in the 1800's by James Montgomery a Scottish poet, and set to a tune written a few years later, it is indeed a glorious and majestic song. Unfortunately, I couldn't find out much about the history of

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On the Third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.....

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.....Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. This song is really deep in theology. The words are rich and full of meaning. Unfortunately I do not have much time right now to go in to the History of this hymn but do take the time to study the lyrics. They unfold the attributes of Christ in a beautiful and triumphant

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On the Second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....

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.....What Child is this! "What Child is this who lays to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?" Indeed the question that has been asked by many throughout the past two thousand years; a question of wonder and awe. That Christ should take on finite sinful flesh and that, in the form of a helpless babe dependent on

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On The First day of Christmas, My True love gave to me.....

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.....God Rest Ye merry Gentlemen! I know that I did this last year; the only problem was that last year I only posted the lyrics without any video. Unacceptable! So I am doing it again this year this time, without the lyrics and only a video! Because I am rather in a rush. Tomorrow, I promise, I'll

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Pachelbel's Cannon in D

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If any one of my readers has never heard this piece before, please let me know! This is perhaps one of the most well known Cannon's in all of history; right up there with Mozart's "Fur Elise" and Bach's "Jesu Bleibet Meine Freud". For any of you who does not know what a cannon is, I will explain.

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